Alexi Lalas is an American retired soccer player who has played as defender and is known for playing with the United States men’s national soccer team in the FIFA World Cup. Lalas was born in Birmingham, Michigan, and he began playing soccer when he was 11 years old. During his high school years, he was named the Michigan High School... read full bio
Alexei Yagudin is a retired Russian figure skater. He competed twice in the Winter Olympics where he represented Russia and won a Gold medal at the Salt Lake City games. He has won Gold in the World Championships four times, won Gold in the European Championships three times, won Gold in the Grand Prix Finals twice, and won Gold once... read full bio
Alexandra Stevenson is a professional tennis player who made her professional debut at Wimbledon and made a name of herself when she became the first woman to qualify in the tennis open era to reach semi-finals. Stevenson has played in Grand Slam Doubles in the Australian Open, the French Open twice, Wimbledon, and the US Open four separate times. She... read full bio
Alexander Ovechkin, also known as “Ovi”, “the Great Eight” and “Alexander the Great”, is a Russian professional ice hockey winger and captain of the Washington Capitals of the NHL. Ovechkin was born in Moscow, Russia, and began his career playing in the Russian Super League in Dynamo Moscow. He went on to be selected by the Washington Capitals in the... read full bio
Alexander Kristoff is a Norwegian professional road bicycle racer currently with the UCI World Team UAE Team Emirates. He has won several races including, 3 individual stages of the Tour de France, Three Days of De Panne, Tour des Fjords twice, Milan-San Remo, Tour of Flanders, National Road Race Championships twice, and many more. Kristoff started his career with the... read full bio
Alex Smith is an American football quarterback who currently plays for the Washington Football Team of the NFL. Smith was born in Bremerton, Washington, and he grew up in La Mesa, California. He began playing football in high school where he helped lead his team to two San Diego CIF section championships. During this time he was on the first-team... read full bio
Alex O’Brien is a retired American professional tennis player who competed for the ATP Tour. Among O’Brien’s many accomplishments he became at one point the world No. 1 doubles player and was ranked No. 30 in the world in singles at one point. O’Brien has played in the U.S. Open, French Open, Australian Open, Wimbledon, and in the Olympic Games.... read full bio
Alex Morgan made history as the youngest player on 2011 FIFA Women’s World Cup. She was 22 years old and she scored the winning goal the next year at the London Olympics. Alex is currently a forward for Orlando Pride and is only the second woman to score twenty goals and make twenty assists in the same year. She was... read full bio
Alex Levy, also known as El Toro, is a French professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. He has had 5 professional wins in his career and two amateur wins. Levy was born in Orange, California to French parents and moved to Bandol, France, when he was four. When he was a teenager Levy joined the French Federation of... read full bio
Three-time All-Star Alex Gordon is an outfielder for the Kansas City Royals of the MLB. Since signing with the Royals, Gordon has been a five-time Gold Glove Award winner, Platinum Glove Award winner, Fielding Bible Award winner and World Series champion. At one point, he was the reigning Web Gem on Baseball Tonight for fifty straight days. He dominated the... read full bio
Alex Cora is a professional baseball manager and former infielder for the Boston Red Sox of the MLB. During his first season as a baseball manager ever, Cora led the Boston Red Sox to the World Series championship where they won the World Series. Prior to being the manager for the Red Sox, Cora was a coach for the Houston... read full bio
Alex Cejka is a Czech-German professional golfer who has played on the European Tour and PGA Tour for several years. Cejka has had 12 professional wins over the course of his career with one of his biggest wins being the Volvo Masters at Valderrama playing for the European Tour. He won 4 European Tours total in his career and shortly... read full bio
Alex Bregman is an American professional baseball third baseman and shortstop that plays for the Houston Astros of the MLB. Bregman was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and he went on to begin his career playing baseball in high school at Albuquerque Academy where he usually played catcher. He went on to be a shortstop and while in high school... read full bio
Alex Avila is a professional baseball catcher for the Chicago White Sox. He was previously the Detroit Tigers starting catcher for their four straight American League Central Division titles. Straight out of high school, Avila was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the MLB Draft, but opted to attend the University of Alabama where he was an All-SEC selection. In... read full bio
Alex Aragon is an American professional golfer who has played for the PGA. He studied at Stanford University where he played golf and shortly after turned professional. He started off playing for the Web.com Tour and went on to win his first tournament at the TPC Stonebrae Championship. His second win was shortly after at the WNB Golf Classic. Aragons... read full bio
Alex and Maia (also known as the “ShibShibs”) are Olympic medal-winning ice dancers who made history at the Winter games. They have won two Olympic Bronze medals, they are three-time World Medalists, Four Continent Champions, and two-time US National Champions. The two have medaled at the U.S. Championships for 14 consecutive years and have won six titles on the Grand... read full bio
Aledmys Diaz is a Curban professional baseball player who is currently a shortstop for the Toronto Blue Jays. Prior to playing for the Blue Jays, Diaz played for the St. Louis Cardinals. Diaz grew up very close to MLB pitcher Jose Fernandez and the two grew up playing baseball together. Prior to playing for the MLB, Diaz played for the... read full bio
Retired professional basketball player Albert King is widely considered to be one of the nation's greatest high school players of all time. He was also rated the top prep player in the nation even over Magic Johnson and Gene Banks in his senior year. He played in the NBA for 9 whole seasons for teams such as the New Jersey... read full bio
Alan Trammell is a retired American baseball shortstop of the Detroit Tigers. Trammell played his entire career with the Tigers, highlighted by a World Series championship. Trammell was one of the best-hitting shortstops of his era and won three Silver Slugger awards. He later served as Detroit's manager. He is currently the bench coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Trammell returned... read full bio
Alan Gordon is a retired American professional soccer player who has played forward. Gordon was born in Long Beach, California, and he later played college soccer for Yavapai College as well as Oregon State University where he won All-Pac-10 honors twice. After graduating from college, Gordon was drafted in the MLS SuperDraft by the Los Angeles Galaxy but he didn’t... read full bio
